As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
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Talk Heavy – Die 4 U
Talk Heavy are quietly killing it with infrequently-released, but perfectly-constructed tracks made of sharp and pacy guitar fun. ‘Die 4 U‘ is only the fourth track they’ve released in just under two years – each have been well worth the wait, even though it leaves you craving more.
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Sophisticated Dingo – Feels Like Woah
Sophisticated Dingo do what they do best on their latest – tear you from your seat, race you round the block, and leave you dripping with sweat and grinning like an idiot.
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REDD. – JEANS SO BAGGY.
REDD. seems to be ticking off genres with each release, with this new one squarely falling into head-nodding beats-and-rhymes territory. As with all their releases so far though, the story’s never that simple and the wonky twists in the songwriting give it a sense of inventiveness that’s otherwise all too rare.
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Mac The Knife – Torn to Shreds
On ‘Torn To Shreds‘ Mac The Knife don’t tell you they’re funny, they tell you a joke, a confident demonstration in place of a shallow boast. Muscular and pounding rhythms underpin darkly theatrical melodies, showing up instead of showing off.
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MUDRAT – YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE
MUDRAT riots in the streets on this latest, a rough-edged concrete slab of a track, designed specifically and intentionally to be thrown through a window. Furious, danceable mayhem, made of adrenaline and rage.